Comment by girvo
7 days ago
People absolutely use LLMs to research politically sensitive topics.
I wish they wouldn’t, but people use LLMs as their general search engines now.
7 days ago
People absolutely use LLMs to research politically sensitive topics.
I wish they wouldn’t, but people use LLMs as their general search engines now.
> People absolutely use LLMs to research politically sensitive topics.
Note I used the word "seriously", I meant it in its fullest form, i.e. serious people.
I'm not interested in what-if arguments based on "you can't fix stupid".
Stupid people also blindly believe whatever a US LLM tells them without any form of verification, hallucinations and all.
Most people on this planet would agree that a Chinese LLM is perfectly usable for all tasks except asking about politically sensitive matters.
And for most people on the planet, that is just fine. They can get their political information elsewhere.
>> I meant it in its fullest form, i.e. serious people.
Is academia serious enough? Well ever since LLM journals' inboxes are bombarded with submissions, and this applies across fields. Like OP said, ppl serious or not are asking LLM about any stuff, also serious or not.
> Is academia serious enough?
Of all the people, academics should know better than to get their answers from LLMs.
Your definition means that any example I can bring up, you can dismiss as “non serious” as you haven’t provided your criteria.
This is a useless rubric and makes discussing this pointless.